One of my favorite lines from the Matrix…”Why do my eyes hurt?”, Neo asks. “You’ve never used them.”, Morpheus replies. If you’ve never seen the movie, Neo has just been released from a lifetime of imprisonment in a computer generated simulation program. He has literally not used the eyes in his head.
It has been several days since I posted last…instead I have been staring at an indescribable, unending vista of mountains, rivers, cliffs and valleys. Some of these views are actually too big to take in. I look. I scan. I step back, and take a breath. I look again. It’s not that I can’t see it. I can’t comprehend it. So I say to myself, “It looks like a movie”.
Really. That’s what I say, “it looks like a movie.” Absolutely impossible. No movie, no camera, no reproduction,can even come close to this view. What I am really feeling is, it looks unreal. So beautiful. So big. So stark. The only way I know to categorize it in my mind is, that it looks like a movie. A simulation of beauty. Ironically what I am looking at is more real than what I look at most days.
Freeways. Buildings. Sculpted lawns. Endless commerce. If only those things looked like a movie, and these landscapes looked real.
Don’t miss it. Really…don’t miss it. Because my eyes have been regularly looking at synthetic, man made vistas, what is real, looks fake. Is it possible that what is fake, also looks real? My eyes have been trained, or perhaps untrained. My eyes, connected to my mind, can only really take in what they have grown accustomed to, and I call this real. I find everything else difficult to take in; my mind calls the things I am unaccustomed to, unreal.
I have used my eyes. But like all my senses they have become trained. Unfortunately I don’t even know how trained they have become. They are the only eyes I have. Unless, perhaps I have eyes in my heart. I wonder if they may have been trained as well. I hope not.
(For pictures, no matter how unreal they may be check my Facebook)
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Awesome as usual.